UK holidaymakers have shown that despite a raft of protests in Majorca and Tenerife over tourism crowds, they are determined to seek the sun whatever the cost. Residents of the EU holiday hotspots have been left licking their wounds after UK tourists “ignored” their calls for action. Despite the flurry of protests across the beloved…
When discussing the highest-grossing films, we often end up looking at the box office numbers. However, the increase in ticket prices over the years dramatically led to a shift in the rankings of these films. A movie that seems to reign supreme based on raw earnings may actually fall down the list when we account for the changes in ticket prices over time.
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The temperature of the Red Sea is +25-27°C, and the air temperature in Egyptian resorts during the day is from +24 to +29°C; you can safely combine beach holidays, diving and excursions. With the beginning of the high season, bargain tours to Egypt from the Czech Republic and other Eastern European countries are gaining popularity. Experts from the online travel agency ANEX Tour have prepared recommendations for Ukrainian tourists.
Tours to Egypt from the Czech Republic, Poland and Moldova are easy to buy online
There is no need to personally hand over documents to apply for vouchers, all communication is done remotely. The catalogue of the online travel agency ANEX Tour contains offers from various tour operators: it is easy to compare tour prices, departure times to and from Egypt, and conditions of stay in the top hotels of Sharm el-Sheikh, Safaga, El Gouna, Hurghada, and Marsa Alam.
Ukrainian tourists print their own documents for holidays in Egypt:
A voucher for hotel accommodation. You should always carry a copy of the voucher with you outside the hotel – it is an official tourist document.
A voucher for a group transfer to a hotel in Egypt and back to the airport. A favourable option for package tours to Egypt. Transfer time takes from 15 to 4 hours.
A travel insurance policy is included in the price of the Egypt package tour.
Important! Before buying a tour to Egypt, you should check the validity of your passport – at least 6 months from the end of your holiday on the Red Sea.
Tours to Egypt: when to buy a visa
The cost of an Egyptian tourist visa is not included in the price of a package tour. In 2024, the price of a single-entry visa with the right to stay in Egypt for up to 30 days is $25. Be sure to buy a visa on the mainland of Egypt, at the airports of Hurghada, El Alamein and Marsa Alam.
Tourists who choose a beach holiday in Sharm el-Sheikh or Dahab can save money on an Egyptian visa. You only need to mark Sinai on your migration card. The condition is to stay in the territory of the Sinai Peninsula and to refuse excursions to Cairo and Luxor in advance.
Professional selection of holidays to Egypt
Egypt has thousands of hotels of different price categories and concepts. It is difficult for tourists to choose a hotel on their own:
with a sandy entrance to the sea or a short stationary pier;
with a large park area;
with swimming pools for kids and relaxation areas for adults.
Many top-of-the-line 4* Egyptian hotels receive excellent reviews from tourists: private beaches, windless bays, homegrown coral reefs and even full-fledged water parks. Hotels 16+ with a relaxation concept are popular.
The online travel agency ANEX Tour offers a list of tours to Egypt, taking into account tourists’ wishes. Flexible solutions allow tourists to quickly choose tours departing from different airports, holiday in new resorts, and get acquainted with hotels after renovation.
Early booking and last-minute tours to Egypt for the 2024-2025 season
Two options to save up to 25-30% on the price of tours. With early booking programmes, tourists can plan their New Year or anniversary celebrations in Egypt in advance, organise an offsite training session or book a room at a top hotel.
Last-minute and hot tours to Egypt offer departure in the coming days. Before buying a tour to Hurghada or Sharm el-Sheikh, you should calculate the route and travel time from your accommodation to the departure airport. No visa is required to travel to an airport in Eastern Europe.
The San Diego Tourism Authority (SDTA) has announced that its president and CEO Julie Coker will be leaving her role to become the president and CEO of New York City Tourism + Conventions. Coker will remain in her role at SDTA until 6 December, 2024.Coker started at SDTA in June 2020 and led the organisation to record-breaking economic figures in 2023, including $14.3bn in visitor spending. Under her leadership, San Diego placed third in the nation in hotel occupancy (73.5%) in 2023. That year, the city’s groups and convention business fully rebounded, surpassing 2019 levels.Throughout her tenure, SDTA recorded a member-retention rate of above 90%.
SDTA’s Board of Directors will form a search committee to begin the process of identifying and selecting a new president and CEO.
SDTA’s Board chair Shawn Dixon said: “Under her leadership, we laid a strong foundation for growth, rebuilding travel confidence, attracting visitors, and supporting local businesses. Julie has been a true champion of SDTA’s work and a wonderful ambassador of San Diego’s tourism industry. We will miss her energy, humor and dedication, and wish her success at New York City Tourism + Conventions.”
A 30-year travel and tourism industry veteran, Coker has championed diversity, equity, and inclusion. Major SDTA initiatives in this field she has led include: the launch of the award-winning Tourism Accelerator programme and the appointment of the organisation’s first director of DEI and community engagement.
Coker holds several executive board positions, serving on the US Department of Commerce’s Travel and Tourism Advisory Board, US Travel Association, Visit California and San Diego-based organisations. Her leadership has garnered numerous accolades, including the Pioneer Award from the National Coalition of Black Meeting Professionals and induction into the Smart Women in Meetings All-Time Hall of Fame.
In 2016, she made history as the first African American female president and CEO to lead a major conventions and visitors bureau in the top 50 US markets when she assumed the role at Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau. Coker also spent more than 20 years with Hyatt Hotels, where she held general manager positions for properties in Philadelphia, Chicago and Oakbrook, Illinois.
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MONROE, La. (KNOE) – Louisiana Tech downed UTEP 14-10 to improve to 2-2 in Conference USA play. Despite only seven total rushing yards, the Bulldogs’ defense was the difference maker, holding the Miners to 1-14 on third down conversions. Head Coach Sonny Cumbie said, “The definition of winning ugly, but we needed that.”Copyright 2024 KNOE. All rights reserved.
MONROE, La. (KNOE) – Louisiana Tech downed UTEP 14-10 to improve to 2-2 in Conference USA play. Despite only seven total rushing yards, the Bulldogs’ defense was the difference maker, holding the Miners to 1-14 on third down conversions. Head Coach Sonny Cumbie said, “The definition of winning ugly, but we needed that.”Copyright 2024 KNOE. All rights reserved.
“I’ve made more money from writing in the past two days than I have in the past three decades,” says Melissa Lucashenko, having just learned she has won one of the richest literary prizes in Australia on Wednesday – just 24 hours after collecting another prize for her latest novel, Edenglassie.Lucashenko has won $150,000 in prize money for Edenglassie since Tuesday, her two latest wins bringing the total number of awards her sixth novel has won to seven.It is an extraordinary run for the First Nations writer of Goorie and European heritage. On Wednesday night, she was announced as the winner of the ARA Historical Novel Society Australasia’s $100,000 adult novel prize – a day after it was announced she had won the $50,000 Margaret and Colin Roderick Literary award. This is on top of five previous awards, including the 2023 Victorian Premier’s Literary award for fiction and the 2024 Queensland Premier’s award for a work of state significance.Hailed as a “fiercely original exploration of Australia’s past and its enduring consequences”, the Historical Novel Society judges described Edenglassie, which stretches across 19th century colonialism and contemporary Indigenous existence, as “an ambitious, epic novel that cracks what the author calls the ‘racist myth-making’ that has painted Aboriginal people so negatively”.“Written with the wit, heart and intelligence that define Lucashenko’s work and here amount to virtuoso storytelling, Edenglassie [is] a timely work that enriches the landscape of historical fiction,” the judges said in their joint statement.Lucashenko told Guardian Australia on Wednesday that Edenglassie had been her “passion project” for the past four years.“It’s the book I had wanted to write for decades,” she said. “And I’m actually really happy with the way it’s turned out. For the first time ever, I’ve written a book that I wouldn’t change a sentence of. So I guess that’s testament to four years of very hard yakka.”
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She began writing the novel in 2019, and continued to write during tumultuous times – the Covid-19 pandemic, bushfires, the Queensland floods that almost claimed the life of her daughter, and the voice referendum – with the latter raising many of the same issues that drove Lucashenko to start writing Edenglassie.“It is the need for a reckoning, and the need for people to actually know where Australia has come from,” she said. “We didn’t land here in 2024 free of history … The backstory of the nation was what I was trying to illuminate.”The Historical Novel Society Australasia awards recognise the outstanding literary talents of novelists who “illuminate stories of the past, providing a window into our present and the future”.Beverley McWilliams was named winner of the $30,000 children and young adult category for Spies in the Sky, a novel inspired by the true history of pigeons who went to war.skip past newsletter promotionafter newsletter promotionThe four shortlisted finalists in both categories also received $5,000 each.Both prizes are open to novels where most of the narrative takes place at least 50 years ago.This year the Historical Novel Society Australasia awards’ patron, the ARA Group, doubled the prize pool to $150,000. The company’s founder, executive chair and managing director, Edward Federman said he believed historical fiction had not always received the attention the genre rightly deserved.“Our hope is that the ARA Historical Novel prize will not only make a considerable difference to the lives of this year’s winning authors, but also shine a light on the historical fiction genre and the work of all entrants across Australia and New Zealand,” he said.
The chief scientist of the Asia Pacific Network Information Center has a theory about why the world hasn’t moved to IPv6.
In a lengthy post to the center’s blog, Geoff Huston recounts that the main reason for the development of IPv6 was a fear the world would run out of IP addresses, hampering the growth of the internet.
But IPv6 represented evolution – not revolution.
“The bottom line was that IPv6 did not offer any new functionality that was not already present in IPv4. It did not introduce any significant changes to the operation of IP. It was just IP, with larger addresses,” Huston wrote.
IPv6’s designers assumed that the protocol would take off because demand for IPv4 was soaring.
But in the years after IPv6 debuted, Huston observes, “There was no need to give the transition much thought.” Internetworking wonks assumed applications, hosts, and networks would become dual stack and support IPv6 alongside IPv4, before phasing out the latter.
But then mobile internet usage exploded, and network operators had to scale to meet unprecedented demand created by devices like the iPhone.
“We could either concentrate our resources on meeting the incessant demands of scaling, or we could work on IPv6 deployment,” Huston wrote.
Achieving scale rose to the top of to-do lists. Early mobile networks were built on IPv4, coupled with network address translation (NAT) to enable more devices to connect without requiring a unique IP address.
Not every NAT implementation was the same, but network operators learned to live with that. The advent of Transport Layer Security in web servers also helped to keep NAT viable.
Content providers, seeing the persistence of IPv4, didn’t bother to adopt IPv6 – meaning network operators didn’t need to, either.
Around 40 percent of the internet nonetheless came to support IPv6. Huston has previously told The Register a big reason for that is the small IPv4 allocations to China and India, where the old protocol just couldn’t be reliably used to support their massive user populations.
But overall, he thinks it is time to stop suggesting that a successful transition from IPv4 to IPv6 means the older protocol has been eliminated.
“Perhaps we should take a more pragmatic approach and … consider it complete when IPv4 is no longer necessary. This would imply that when a service provider can operate a viable internet service using only IPv6 and having no supported IPv4 access mechanisms at all, then we would’ve completed this transition.”
To reach that state, ISPs, connected edge networks and the hosts in those networks all need to support IPv6. So do all websites.
Say my name, say my name
But Huston contends that the advent of content delivery networks – which are the way the majority of content and services reach end-users – means there’s no need to adopt IPv6.
CDNs, he argues, rely on domain names, not IP addresses. “It’s the DNS that increasingly is used to steer users to the ‘best’ service delivery point for content or service. From this perspective addresses, IPv4 or IPv6, are not the critical resource for a service and its users. The ‘currency’ of this form of CDN network is names,” Huston argues.
“The implication of these observations is that the transition to IPv6 is progressing very slowly not because this industry is chronically short-sighted,” the APNIC scientist added. “There is something else going on here. IPv6 alone is not critical to a large set of end-user service delivery environments.”
Indeed, he believes that we are already “pushing everything out of the network and over to applications.”
“Transmission infrastructure is becoming an abundant commodity. Network sharing technology (multiplexing) is decreasingly relevant. We have so many network and computing resources that we no longer must bring consumers to service delivery points. Instead, we are bringing services towards consumers and using the content frameworks to replicate servers and services. With so much computing and storage, the application is becoming the service rather than just a window to a remotely operated service.”
That trend means Huston wonders if networks will even matter in the future.
“The last couple of decades have seen us stripping out network-centric functionality and replacing this with an undistinguished commodity packet transport medium. It’s fast and cheap, but it’s up to applications to overlay this common basic service with its own requirements.” The result is networks become “simple dumb pipes!”
Given that, Huston wonders if it’s time to revisit the definition of the internet as networks that use a common shared transmission fabric, a common suite of protocols and a common protocol address pool.
Rather, he posits “Is today’s network more like ‘a disparate collection of services that share common referential mechanisms using a common namespace?'” ®
The chief scientist of the Asia Pacific Network Information Center has a theory about why the world hasn’t moved to IPv6.
In a lengthy post to the center’s blog, Geoff Huston recounts that the main reason for the development of IPv6 was a fear the world would run out of IP addresses, hampering the growth of the internet.
But IPv6 represented evolution – not revolution.
“The bottom line was that IPv6 did not offer any new functionality that was not already present in IPv4. It did not introduce any significant changes to the operation of IP. It was just IP, with larger addresses,” Huston wrote.
IPv6’s designers assumed that the protocol would take off because demand for IPv4 was soaring.
But in the years after IPv6 debuted, Huston observes, “There was no need to give the transition much thought.” Internetworking wonks assumed applications, hosts, and networks would become dual stack and support IPv6 alongside IPv4, before phasing out the latter.
But then mobile internet usage exploded, and network operators had to scale to meet unprecedented demand created by devices like the iPhone.
“We could either concentrate our resources on meeting the incessant demands of scaling, or we could work on IPv6 deployment,” Huston wrote.
Achieving scale rose to the top of to-do lists. Early mobile networks were built on IPv4, coupled with network address translation (NAT) to enable more devices to connect without requiring a unique IP address.
Not every NAT implementation was the same, but network operators learned to live with that. The advent of Transport Layer Security in web servers also helped to keep NAT viable.
Content providers, seeing the persistence of IPv4, didn’t bother to adopt IPv6 – meaning network operators didn’t need to, either.
Around 40 percent of the internet nonetheless came to support IPv6. Huston has previously told The Register a big reason for that is the small IPv4 allocations to China and India, where the old protocol just couldn’t be reliably used to support their massive user populations.
But overall, he thinks it is time to stop suggesting that a successful transition from IPv4 to IPv6 means the older protocol has been eliminated.
“Perhaps we should take a more pragmatic approach and … consider it complete when IPv4 is no longer necessary. This would imply that when a service provider can operate a viable internet service using only IPv6 and having no supported IPv4 access mechanisms at all, then we would’ve completed this transition.”
To reach that state, ISPs, connected edge networks and the hosts in those networks all need to support IPv6. So do all websites.
Say my name, say my name
But Huston contends that the advent of content delivery networks – which are the way the majority of content and services reach end-users – means there’s no need to adopt IPv6.
CDNs, he argues, rely on domain names, not IP addresses. “It’s the DNS that increasingly is used to steer users to the ‘best’ service delivery point for content or service. From this perspective addresses, IPv4 or IPv6, are not the critical resource for a service and its users. The ‘currency’ of this form of CDN network is names,” Huston argues.
“The implication of these observations is that the transition to IPv6 is progressing very slowly not because this industry is chronically short-sighted,” the APNIC scientist added. “There is something else going on here. IPv6 alone is not critical to a large set of end-user service delivery environments.”
Indeed, he believes that we are already “pushing everything out of the network and over to applications.”
“Transmission infrastructure is becoming an abundant commodity. Network sharing technology (multiplexing) is decreasingly relevant. We have so many network and computing resources that we no longer must bring consumers to service delivery points. Instead, we are bringing services towards consumers and using the content frameworks to replicate servers and services. With so much computing and storage, the application is becoming the service rather than just a window to a remotely operated service.”
That trend means Huston wonders if networks will even matter in the future.
“The last couple of decades have seen us stripping out network-centric functionality and replacing this with an undistinguished commodity packet transport medium. It’s fast and cheap, but it’s up to applications to overlay this common basic service with its own requirements.” The result is networks become “simple dumb pipes!”
Given that, Huston wonders if it’s time to revisit the definition of the internet as networks that use a common shared transmission fabric, a common suite of protocols and a common protocol address pool.
Rather, he posits “Is today’s network more like ‘a disparate collection of services that share common referential mechanisms using a common namespace?'” ®